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"The Two Gardens of Claude Monet-Les Deux Jardins De Claude Monet- Club Closed-Online Webinar Zoom Only"
by Freeman Patterson-Canada
Monday, January 27, 07:30 PM


Photographers can learn a great deal from artists working in other visual media, such as painting, drawing, gardening, and the fabric arts and other visual artists can learn a great deal from photographers. This presentation of 85 photographs made in Claude Monet’s house and water gardens, accompanied by Freeman’s spoken commentary, is based on this premise.

Claude Monet is one of the world’s most famous and favorite painters, but he was equally skilled as a garden designer and gardener. In three weeks of making photographs in the gardens before and after visitors were admitted Freeman employed a documentary approach to show the gardens as they were and an impressionistic approach to convey his emotional responses to them.

Freeman Patterson of Shampers Bluff, New Brunswick, Canada, has had a career in photography and visual design that spans more than 60 years. He has taught innumerable workshops in Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Israel, France, the United Kingdom, the USA, and other countries. He has authored 15 books, five of them on photography and visual design; his most recent, Embracing Creation, was published in conjunction with the opening of his large retrospective exhibition at New Brunswick’s Beaverbrook Art Gallery in September 2013.

Freeman is a recipient of the Photographic Society of America’s highest award, The Progress Medal; the Order of Canada-1985, the Order of New Brunswick -2013, and is an elected member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art.